Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Murray, both as a scholar of Greek Drama, and of Literature, and as an international figure through his connection with the League of Nations, has delivered a series of lectures at Harvard which, as the Herald says, "have drawn as few orators can hope...
Professor Murray is the first occupant of the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry, founded recently by C. C. Stillman '98. For the past few weeks the distinguished scholar has been delivering these lectures at the University...
...middle of last summer that Charles William Eliot, President of Harvard University, Emeritus, passed away. Notices of his death were immediately broadcasted to the newspapers of the world. Innumerable articles and editorials were written to review and praise the long life and impressive work of the revered scholar, administrator, man. It was, however, a particularly unhappy reflection upon the present state of the civilized world that the newspapers, and newspapers print what the people want, gave undue attention to the death of a cinema hero, with the result that the Grand Old Man of America was not given space...
...mathematics during his Senior year, and he also "enjoyed special privileges in being admitted to the private laboratory of the young Professor of Chemistry, Josiah P. Cook." He payed special attention to declamation. In spite of difficulty with his eyes during his Junior year, he graduated the second scholar in his class...
...psychological actuate his characters where once the adventurous ran them in and out of impossible situations. But the change is not displeasing nor unconvincing. He shows, moreover, a knowledge of ancient rites and prehistoric religions that lend a peculiar fascination to the tale. It is a yarn by a scholar of the antique, if thta is comprehensible, a romance by an author who knows the romance of the past and proves that the truth or near truth after all is stranger than fiction. For the old preChristian festival of the coming of spring--in Plakos, the scene of the action...